What is a copyright?
Copyright is a term used in legal court to pertain to the credit and exclusive rights given to an author of an original work. An author is usually a writer, an artist, or anyone who have written or drawn something of his own makings and idea. An original work can pertain to a document, an article or an artwork. An author’s exclusive copyright is usually given for a limited time. After such duration, the work would be considered as public domain and can be reused by anyone.
A copyright gives an author a number of privileges. This includes the right to gain credit or even to sell the use of an original work. A copyrighted item is an intellectual property similar to trademarks and patents. Depending on your location, a specific government branch administers copyright licensing and monitors that copyright law are not violated.
The concept of creating a copyright law is to protect the author from keeping the rights to his works, profit from it, and take credit for what he had created. And because copyright law prohibits the reuse of an original work without proper permission from its author, this law consequently impels other authors to create original works of their own.
